Simple graphQL server for the frontend chat app
To run the app locally on port 4000, you just need to run the following scripts (written in bold)
- yarn - installs all dependencies
- yarn serve - build the app package and serves it from the local dist folder
This app was build with graphql-yoga. Main reasons being:
- Build on-top of express (node based web-server)
- Built-in support for graphQL subscription using websockets (pubsub pattern)
- Works quite nicely with the front-end chat app built with Apollo.
- Graphql playground to test your resolvers.
Once the project and is listening to port 4000, you can open up localhost:4000
on your browser and tests many mock services (aka resolvers functions) in the playground.
for eg. A request as given below:
query {
getMockUser {
name
email
privateChats {
senderName
receiverName
message
}
publicChats {
senderName
message
created
}
}
}
will return a response as below.
{
"data": {
"getMockUser": {
"name": "Bijay",
"email": "xyz@gmail.com",
"privateChats": [
{
"senderName": "Bijay",
"receiverName": "Bijay v2",
"message": "Hello myself :)"
}
],
"publicChats": [
{
"senderName": "Bijay",
"message": "Hello eveyone",
"created": "01/03/2021"
}
]
}
}
}